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Japanese-made porcelain
The title is Seihakuji Tsubo (青白磁壷).
This is a jar created by Nakamura Seigo.
Throwing a shaped jar on the potter's wheel.
It's okay to arrange the flower in the jar.
Seihakuji (青白磁)
It's one kind of hakuji, there's the pale blue-green color caused by subtle amount of iron.
The transparent color that blends into nature is really impressive on the whole.
It's all started with baked works in China.
The glaze containing iron turns to light blue by reduction firing.
Height : 16 cm
Diameter : 19.5 cm
Adding thickness at the bottom part and being shaped thinly out towards top results in a stable completion. The involvement between clay and potter's wheel has fully achieved new type of shape.